Started in 2011, It’s Nice to Make explores to what extent 'making' can promote well-being for community groups and individuals and asks "is there a place for craft practice in the neuroplasticity revolution?"

From 2011-2014 It’s Nice to Make ran an arts & wellbeing research project at Headway East London.Headway supports people affected by acquired brain injury. #INTM

Publications:Rana, Mah and Hackney, Fiona (2018), Making and Material Affect: From Learning and Teaching to Sharing and Listening, in R. Prior (ed.), Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching, Bristol: Intellect

Film screenings:

Pleased to announce that One Day When We Were Young has been selected to be shown at Real to Reel with @CraftCouncilUK & @craftsmagazine @CentralPictureH #RealtoReelWednesday 3rd May 2017 - Screening at Picturehouse Central cinema – Shaftesbury AvenueA film by Mah Rana made for the project The Power of Making: material affectFiona Hackney Professor Fashion Textiles Theories, Wolverhampton University, and Mah Rana​

Talks and events:Rana, H. & Hackney, F. (2017), Making & Material Affect. From Learning & Teaching to Sharing and Listening, book chapter to be published Dec 2018

1st September 2016, joint paper presentation with Dr Fiona Hackney, Professor Fashion Textile Theories;The Power of Making: Material AffectArt as Research in Learning and Teaching conference at Wolverhampton University.